After three years of waiting, Dolphin Capital Partners has finally written the prescription for its makeover of the Playa Grande resort in the Dominican Republic.
The first step in the process: An overhaul of Playa Grande’s Robert Trent Jones-designed golf course, a 7,085-yard oceanfront track that Dolphin likes to call “the Pebble Beach of the Caribbean.” The renovation, which begins this summer, is being overseen by Jones’ second son, Montclair, New Jersey-based Rees Jones.
While “the Open Doctor” treats the golf course, Dolphin will establish an Aman Golf Resort at Playa Grande. The “vertical structures” of this resort within a resort will consist of Aman-branded villas, a 30-suite, Aman-branded hotel with a beach club, and an Aman-branded golf clubhouse. (Needless to say, Aman is one of the resort’s minority owners.)
If you're wondering, Playa Grande spreads over 2,000 acres (and seven miles of coastline) just west of Cabrera.
Its golf course, which opened in 1997 (it’s one of Jones’ final original designs), will be lengthened a bit, via the addition and/or relocation of rear tees, and its bunkers will be rebuilt and relocated.
Cyprus-based Dolphin, which is controlled by Miltos Kambourides and Pierre Charalambides, also aims to build new resort communities in Cyprus, Greece, and the island of Crete.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
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